English Quotes

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.